Lactic acid is a sperm motility inactivation factor in the sperm storage tubules

Although successful fertilization depends on timely encounters between sperm and egg, the decoupling of mating and fertilization often confers reproductive advantages to internally fertilizing animals. In several vertebrate groups, postcopulatory sperm viability is prolonged by storage in specialize...

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Main Authors: Matsuzaki, Mei, Mizushima, Shusei, Hiyama, Gen, Hirohashi, Noritaka, Shiba, Kogiku, Inaba, Kazuo, Suzuki, Tomohiro, Dohra, Hideo, Ohnishi, Toshiyuki, Sato, Yoshikatsu, Kohsaka, Tetsuya, Ichikawa, Yoshinobu, Atsumi, Yusuke, Yoshimura, Takashi, Sasanami, Tomohiro
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664960/